JSR Group provides support for young-generation development and education opportunities through continued efforts to provide education and internship opportunities to students both in Japan and abroad. We also provide work experience opportunities.

With the idea of supporting students who will lead the next generation in the field of physics, we have sponsored the Jr. Session organized by the Physical Society of Japan since the 20th session (2024) and presented the JSR Award as a prize for excellence.

The Jr. Session is a long-standing research presentation event that started in 2005, the World Year of Physics. It has been held annually ever since. The 20th session was held on March 16, 2024 with 88 high school teams from across Japan presenting their research results online. The judging results were announced on March 27, and an awards ceremony was held.

• Jr. Session official website

• ■Articles on the JSR Award and Each School
• Nagoya University Affiliated Upper School
• Okayama Prefectural Tsuyama High School

The Human Resources Development Program in Chemistry was created by the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA) in October 2010. It is based on a proposal made in a report prepared in April of the same year by the "Kagaku Bijon Kenkyukai" (chemistry vision study group) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The program informs universities of the chemical industry’s human resources needs. The industry then supports the university courses that can meet these needs and their students. The program’s purpose is to develop the young people who will serve as the foundation for stronger international competitiveness and industrial promotion in Japan’s chemical industry. We use the program to support courses engaged in outstanding initiatives and their students.

KBI (U.S.) accepts students from Frederick High School in Colorado for six-week internships. Employee volunteers provide the students with practical experience.

Since 2014, with cooperation from JSR Group and JSR Labor Union, has participated in the "School bags (Randoseru) for Children in Afghanistan" drive held by JOICFP, an NGO engaged in international cooperation. Through the event, we donate used school bags to underprivileged children in Afghanistan to assist in their education. The event aims to help give children the knowledge and information they need to keep themselves and their families healthy by attending school and learning to read and write. In 2023, we again donated school bags as well as pencils, notebooks, and other stationery. We will remain involved with this event as a form of social contribution in which individual employees can participate.

• JOICFP (external site)

SOAT is a non-profit organization that carries out support activities for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 by creating motivation in life through art workshops. JSR agrees with the objective of SOAT’s activities and supports these activities.

• NPO Supporting Organization for Artists of Tohoku (external site)

JSR Group undertakes various activities to build good relationships with local communities and people living nearby. The Group’s offices and plants in Japan and abroad continually conduct clean-ups targeting nearby communities.

• Biodiversity Conservation

JSR Group has long been an active participant in blood donation activities at both domestic and overseas offices and plants.

JSR Micro N.V. (Belgium) participates in De Warmste Week, a charity event in the Flanders region every year. This is an event supporting various charitable activities in the Flanders region. This year the company participated in a charity run and collected donations.

KBI (U.S.) supports OUR Center, which helps poor households in Colorado. KBI has been a sponsor since 2016 and engages in volunteer activities, such as donating food and preparing and serving meals.

KBI (USA) has established a Women's Affinity Group to organize professional development workshops, networking events, and educational initiatives for women.

JSR Group’s Tokyo and Yokkaichi Districts have participated in the TFT program run by the non-profit organization TABLE FOR TWO since February 2010. We donated 11,759 school lunches in 2023.

TFT is an initiative for sharing meals with children in developing countries. When an employee purchases a meal designated by TFT, 20 yen of its price is donated to buy a school meal for a child in a developing country.

We support activities to prevent illness and donate to the Japan branch of the Médecins Sans Frontières NGO (Doctors Without Borders) programs that provide ongoing treatment for HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases such as cholera and malaria.

Interested employees actively participate in the social contribution activities carried out by JSR in each region. Activities carried out for communities also help broaden employees’ horizons. Employees can take up to five days of paid leave per year as a part of our paid volunteer leave system.

• ESG Data